The Graduate School of Frontier Sciences (Independent School) was established in 1998, in cooperation with all of the current departments of the University of Tokyo. Designed as a graduate program solely for Masters and Doctoral candidates, this program is made up of the Division of Transdisciplinary Sciences, the Division of Biosciences, the Division of Environmental Studies, and the Department of Computational Biology. Each of these areas has the common feature of focusing research and education on the frontiers of conventional disciplines.